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Natural World: Living with Baboons
BBC Two, 8pm
Dr Mathew Pines has spent the last five years living among the hamadryas
baboons of Awash National Park in eastern Ethiopia. He knows all 200 of them
by name; he speaks fluent baboon and they have accepted him as one of their
own. Dr Pines is devoted to his primate chums, and he looks out for them
like an anxious father. And sadly, there is abundant cause for anxiety. The
baboon’s closest neighbours are the Afar, a tribe with a fierce reputation
for cutting off the testicles of their enemies and wearing